American Gangster

2007 7.6 (5626 votes) 2h 37m

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Genres

Drama Crime

Production Companies

Film Rites
Imagine Entertainment
Universal Pictures
Relativity Media
Scott Free Productions

There are two sides to the American dream.

Overview

Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by Newark Detective Richie Roberts.